Packaging Engineer

About the role

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we're the world's leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you'll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future. Join us to build a career worth celebrating. Which company will you join? From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of outstanding character, and in 250 years, nothing has changed. We're the world's leading premium alcohol company! Our brands are industry icons including Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Bulleit and Buchanan's whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It's why we trust them with our legacy and why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve. Our ambition is to build the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the very best people! At Diageo, our purpose is to celebrate life everywhere, every day. To do that, you will join an organization that is passionate about customers and consumers, and proud of what they do. Diageo teams constantly set high goals and then try hard to exceed them. We are also an incredibly diverse organization, and we value each and every one's talent and personality. - Delivering programs on time, in full, and on budget while hitting COGs targets and maintaining quality is paramount. - Sitting within the North American Technical organization, the Packaging Team acts as a business partner to both NA Supply and ISC as well as Innovation and Brand Change, Procurement and Conversion. - This role consists of working with the project team to deliver technical packaging support through the life cycle of the program! - This role will develop technical specifications, complete specification workflows for approval, prepare and issue specifications to vendors. - They will also complete packaging Testing Plans to support the Innovation & Brand Change project pipeline, Supplier Onboarding and Conversion packaging quality concerns. - Packaging Lab activities will take place in the Plainfield Packaging Laboratory. Market Complexity: - As part of the end-to-end supply chain, NA Supply has an extensive network of wholly-owned and Third-Party Operation sites across the US and Canada. - In North America, Diageo owns and operates a network of manufacturing, bottling, distilling and warehousing sites. - NA Technical is an organization of 150+ people with a (USD)23M budget, operating across several locations within the US and Canada. - From these locations NA Technical leads the Technical Equity for Diageo NA Supply and Demand across the Diageo portfolio.